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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

BIZARRE: Mps call for sanctions on hong kong officials targeting uk based activists - What They Never Told You

The photos of eight activists who have been issued arrest warrants, displayed during a press conference in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong police on Monday offered a reward equal to about £100,000 per person for information leading to the arrest of eight activists. Photograph: Joyce Zhou/Reuters

Hong Kong officials involved in targeting UK-based pro-democracy activists who had bounties placed on them should be subject to sanctions, opposition and Tory backbenchers have urged the UK government.

A Foreign Office minister responding to concerns raised in parliament was also challenged by one of her Conservative colleagues over her recent meeting with a Chinese official whom the Tory MP Tim Loughton described as “China’s chief dissident snatcher”.

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